Dave will never stop doing stand up comedy. He loves it so much.
On the set of Les Tortues, Dave communicated with one of the actors by singing Beatles' lyrics to each other. They couldn't speak each other's language but knew Beatles' songs.
Dave improvised with Alison Steadman during their breaks in filming on the set of 23 Walks. They had such a laugh.
Dave is writing a play about Adolf Hitler returning to Berlin in 2024.
Dave wrote the stage adaptation of "I, Daniel Blake" which first toured the U.K in 2023 to critical acclaim.
Dave doesn't speak French but he had to learn the language in 3 weeks for his film, Les Tortues, shot in Belgium.
Dave has been to Venice six times and has never been in a gondola.
Dave has visited Pompeii five times.
Dave hates innuendo! When he sees it in a script, he immediately whips it out!
Donald Sutherland gave Dave a big bear hug at the Cannes Film Festival.
Dave has won four film awards but never an Oscar.
Dave has fished for crab and lobster off the coast of Port Issac, Cornwall.
Dave has sang sea shanties in a sold out concert at the Minack Open Air Theatre in Cornwall.
Dave once told Meryl Streep that all the drinks at the BAFTA party were free
Dave once saw the face of Jesus in a piece of toast (but it could have been Frank Zappa).
One of Dave's favourite authors is Robert Harris.
Dave's favourite 3 foods are Sushi, Irish Stew and Roast Chicken - in any order.
Dave had a double page feature in Esquire Magazine.
Dave rode a horse for the first time in his life on a beach in the Bahamas in January 2017.
Dave met Sean Connery in the Bahamas where he told Mr Connery how much he enjoyed his performance in Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
Dave loves Jimi Hendrix.
Dave's favourite rock track is Baba O'Riley by The Who.
Dave saw Led Zeppelin in 1971. The ticket cost £1.00
You can tell Dave is working class. He has little bits of scratchcards under his finger nails.
Dave loves to play chess. Sometimes he plays against opponents whilst he is blindfolded. He never ever wins those games.
The secret to being a Stand Up Comic is to always say really funny things.
Mark Rylance told Dave his acting in I, Daniel Blake was wonderful. Dave thanked Mr Rylance for his kind words and asked Mr Rylance if he'd like to dance. Mr Rylance declined.
Dave beat the Beast on Celebrity Chase October 2017. He couldn't catch me!
Dave's show "I, Fillum Star" enjoyed a sell out run at The Pleasance King Dome 2017.
Dave's daughter is a genius at all things Harry Potter and is much better than her dad at everything !!!!!
Dave once sang on stage with the legendary R & B guitarist Bo Diddly at The Mayfair in Newcastle.
Dave's ten favourite cities are:- Sarajevo, Mumbai, Prague, Venice, Paris, Melbourne, New York, San Sebastian, London and Edinburgh.
Dave's favourite actor is Mark Rylance.
Dave's favourite actress is Isabelle Huppert.
Dave's favourite comic is Sean Lock.
Dave Johns and Owen O'Neill had an idea one day to write the stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption. They asked Stephen King if they could adapt his short story. Stephen said yes and every Autumn it now tours the UK.
Dave applied for a licence to run donkey rides a few years ago on Whitley Bay beach. Sadly, due to bureaucracy, Dave's donkey ride dream did not materialise and Whitley Bay beach remains donkey free to this day.
Dave can play the ukulele.
Dave was once shipwrecked off the coast of Sweden in the late 70’s on the DFDS car ferry, the Sir Winston Churchill.
Dave was in Kevin Eldon's TV show, It's Kevin.
Dave's first show at the Edinburgh Fringe was in 1992. It was called Vampire Girly Puffs of Sodom. It got four one star reviews.
Dave has gigged in New York City.
Dave is very good at the comedy show Set List where comedians improvise suggested topics from a screen live on stage.
Dave is a talented improvisator who regularly guests with the Comedy Store Players’ impro team.
Dave and Owen O'Neill's stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption played Tokyo in 2014 with an entire Japanese cast.
Dave's favourite scifi film is Ridley Scott's Bladerunner.
One of Dave's favourite books is "Star of the Sea" by Joseph O'Connor.
Dave once found a bottle on a beach with a sheet of paper in the bottom. When he took it out and read it, the note said "You have no messages".
One of Dave's favourite musicals is "West Side Story".
One of Dave's favourite songs is "Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darren.
One of Dave's favourite artists is Marc Chagall.
Dave directed Ant & Dec in the Wizard of Oz when they were kids.
Dave has appeared on the legendary Australian TV show "Hey Hey It's Saturday" three times.
In 2003 Dave and a bunch of comics toured Australia and New Zealand with the stage play 12 Angry Men.
In 2001 Dave, Sean Lock and Johnny Vegas shot the rapids on the St Lawrence River in Canada. Johnny fell overboard, Sean and Dave laughed.
Dave has appeared on the Alan Davies show As Yet Untitled.
Dave has appeared on 8 out of 10 Cats.
Dave once operated the plant, Audrey 2, in the musical, The Little Shop of Horrors, at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House.
Dave has toured Norway in the early 90s.
Dave has performed stand up in Mumbai, India many times.
Dave is one of only a handful of comedians that have played on every night at the Comedy Store, London.
Dave has appeared on Celebrity Pointless where Omid Djalili cheated to win:
Dave has appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks five times. On one show a joke about Rommel being invisible went down very well.
Dave has performed many times in the Middle East, the Far East, but never the Near East.
Dave was in a film which won the Palme D'or at the 2016 Cannes film festival.
Dave played Murray in the stage play The Odd Couple with Bill Bailey & Alan Davies to much critical acclaim.
Not many people know, but Dave has a false right leg with a real foot on the end.
Dave has a glass eye, see if you can spot it when you meet him.
Dave co-wrote the stage play The Shawshank Redemption.
Dave has written a play that ran on the West End stage.
Dave was in a film called I Daniel Blake. He played Daniel Blake. It was shot in Byker where Dave was born.
Ken Loach wouldn't let Dave have any dessert at lunch on the set of I Daniel Blake. Ken told him: "Pudding is the enemy of creativity"
Dave has been in the stage play Measure for Measure by a man called William Shakespeare.
Dave did a sitcom once called Dog Town for BBC 3. Yes you are correct, you've never heard of it.
If you're like Dave and you hate product placement ads, why not do what Dave does when he gets angry about it? Stay at the wonderful five star Hathaway Hotel Golf Club and Spa, Cleethorpes..
Dave once did a gig in an Irish pub in Bali, where an Indonesian midget danced on a table dressed as a leprechaun throughout his whole set.
Dave co-founded the comedians’ benevolent fund, Comedy Support Act.
Dave did pot holing in his twenties all over Yorkshire.
Dave was once a professional gambler whose nickname was “The Coat” on race tracks throughout the UK. Comic Mark Lamarr once remarked "Are you sure that is what they were calling you?".
Dave supports the Toon Army & Newcastle United.
At the Edinburgh Festival Dave once asked Dan Castellaneta of The Simpsons to do the voice of Homer for him. Castellaneta said he would as long as Dave closed his eyes. Dave closed his eyes and Castellaneta fucked off.. Doh !
Dave once went up in a lift at the Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes with Woody Allen. They did not speak to each other.
Dave appeared on the West End stage with movie star, Christian Slater in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He once said to Christian Slater “I just want to say, Christian, I really loved the movie Minority Report.” To which Christian answered “I wasn't in Minority Report” To which Dave answered “I know, I just wanted to say I really loved it”. They became great buddies after that.
Dave played Juror Six in the stage play 12 Angry Men at the Assembly rooms Edinburgh fringe 2003: After breaking box office records and having huge critical acclaim it then went on to tour Australia & New Zealand.
Dave has a sister.
The Dave you see today was once a ten year old child.. it must have been around 1966.
Dave was in the front row of the David Bowie Ziggy Stardust tour at Sunderland Empire in 1972 when one of Bowie's testicles popped out. There was no glitter on it.
Dave fell asleep at a show of the Pink Floyd tour of Dark Side of the Moon in the early 70s.
Dave saw the Sex Pistols live when they toured as The Spots.
Dave did a very funny show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999 titled I'm in the Attic, Mother.
Dave won the Spirit of the Fringe Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1997.
Dave owns a 170 million year old dinosaur egg.
Dave was once in a film directed by Ken Loach.
Dave never went to university. He studied at the University of Life where he got a 2/1 in Animal Husbandry.
Dave has played many festivals in his time - Notably one year at Glastonbury in the worst storms on record
Dave once stayed in Durham Castle in a thunderstorm with Bill Bailey, then in the double act the Rubber Bishops. Also in the castle that night was Harry Hill & Bob Mills.
Dave was co-director of the first Newcastle International Comedy Festival, which ran every October from 1993 to 2001 bringing worldwide comedy talent to the Toon.
Dave ran Newcastle's first weekly comedy club, The Comedy Cafe, from 1989-1998 at the Tyne Theatre, Westgate Road...Where he gave a 14 year old called Ross Noble his first gigs.
Dave's first paid weekend at the Comedy Store, London was in 1991
Dave's first gig in London was at the Comedy Cafe, Rivington Street, London in 1991 - followed by the Cartoon at Clapham, hosted by a very young Sean Lock - they later became great friends
Dave's first professional paid gig outside Newcastle was at Frank Skinner's comedy club, the Bearwood Tavern, Birmingham where he received the fee of £80 - or £1000 pounds in today's money. On the bill that night was Alan Davies and Lee Evans
Dave first stepped on stage as a stand up comic at the Comedy Cafe, Tyne Theatre, Newcastle on the 25th March 1989. On the bill that night was Jo Brand and Mickey Hutton
Dave has supported Sean Lock and Johnny Vegas on tour
Dave has played Melbourne International Comedy Festival four times
Dave has played Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival.
Dave has played Galway comedy festival.
Dave first played Australia in 1997 on a now legendary comedy festival tour where Dave hired a clown to spend the day with him and eight comics on kangaroo island. Dave is still friends with the clown.
In 2004 Dave shared a bag of chips with 90’s supermodel Cindy Crawford in a Soho alley just outside the Gielgud theatre
Dave has performed inside the Arctic circle, in Cambodia and in the wardroom on board a nuclear submarine in Guam, where all the officers wore dresses.
Dave once walked the Ridgeway with comedians Bill Bailey, Sean Lock, Kevin Eldon, Omid Djalili and Martin Trenaman.
Mick Jagger once told one of Dave's jokes to tens of thousands of Stones fans at Hampden park, Glasgow. Rumour has it from a fan that it died on its arse and the band went quickly into Start Me Up....
Dave once did the warm up slot for Prince, The Purple One himself, on Tyne Tees’ legendary music show, The Tube, in 2000. While Prince was standing waiting in the wings to go on, Dave told him to "Keep it tight mate".
Dave and fellow comedian, Mike Gunn, while in Australia were both chased by a kangaroo with an erection at Hanging Rock. They were also chased by an emu, who didn't have an erection but was equally angry.
Dave played Montreal's Just For Laughs festival in 2001 in the Brit Com Show. He witnessed legend Johnny Vegas have one of the most hilariously glorious stage deaths ever. Watching from the side of the stage at the St Denis Theatre Gala Show, six British comics had tears of laughter streaming down their faces.
Dave first stepped on stage as a stand up comic at the Comedy Cafe, Tyne Theatre, Newcastle on the 25th March 1989. On the bill that night was Jo Brand and Mickey Hutton
Dave's first professional paid gig outside Newcastle was at Frank Skinner's comedy club, the Bearwood Tavern, Birmingham where he received the fee of £80 - or £1000 pounds in today's money. On the bill that night was Alan Davies and Lee Evans
Dave's first gig in London was at the Comedy Cafe, Rivington Street, London in 1991 - followed by the Cartoon at Clapham, hosted by a very young Sean Lock - they later became great friends
Dave's first paid weekend at the Comedy Store, London was in 1991
Dave ran Newcastle's first weekly comedy club, The Comedy Cafe, from 1989-1998 at the Tyne Theatre, Westgate Road...Where he gave a 14 year old called Ross Noble his first gigs.
Dave was co-director of the first Newcastle International Comedy Festival, which ran every October from 1993 to 2001 bringing worldwide comedy talent to the Toon.
Dave has played many festivals in his time - Notably one year at Glastonbury in the worst storms on record
Dave has played Melbourne International Comedy Festival four times
Dave has played Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival.
Dave once stayed in Durham Castle in a thunderstorm with Bill Bailey, then in the double act the Rubber Bishops. Also in the castle that night was Harry Hill & Bob Mills.
Dave once saw the face of Jesus in a piece of toast (but it could have been Frank Zappa).